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Trade Show & Expo catering in Los Angeles.
Trade show and expo-booth catering across Los Angeles — booth grazing and staff meals, halal, per guest.
Menus & packages
Trade Shows catering, by cuisine
$21–$38 per guest across cuisines. Each cuisine, built into per-person packages for this occasion. Open one for its package tiers, pricing, and proof — the full dish list lives on each menu.
American — Trade Show
Booth & expo feeding, fast and portable, American — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Mediterranean — Trade Show
Booth & expo feeding, fast and portable, Mediterranean — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Mexican — Trade Show
Booth & expo feeding, fast and portable, Mexican — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Halal — Trade Show
Booth & expo feeding, fast and portable, Halal — halal · zabiha-sourced, priced per guest.
Trade Shows catering runs about $18–$37 per guest, all-in, and the price per guest falls as the guest count rises. Here is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.
| Guests | Estimated cost | Per guest |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $475 – $750 | $19 – $30 |
| 50 | $900 – $1,850 | $18 – $37 |
| 100 | $1,800 – $3,700 | $18 – $37 |
| 150 | $2,700 – $5,550 | $18 – $37 |
All-in: the food plus the staff, delivery and setup the service style needs. Tastings, rentals, add-on services and California sales tax are the only additions, and there is no service charge. The crew, setup and delivery are shared across the room, so the price per guest falls as the count rises. Every menu halal · zabiha-sourced.
Trade Shows Catering
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The occasion
Trade Shows catering in Los Angeles & Orange County
What it takes to cater trade shows well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.
On a trade-show floor, food is what stops traffic at your booth and keeps your team standing. We cater expos with booth grazing spreads, boxed staff meals and beverage service — delivered to the hall on the convention centre schedule, all halal, priced per guest.
Expo catering is two completely different jobs wearing one name, and conflating them is the usual mistake. Job one is booth traffic: food as a reason to stop, which means it has to be visible from the aisle, smell good from two booths away, be handed over in under five seconds without a plate, and leave no litter you then have to deal with in a carpeted hall. Job two is keeping your own team standing. Booth staff work eight to ten hours on their feet, usually skip lunch because the aisle is busy exactly when the food hall is, and are the reason a good booth goes flat by mid-afternoon. Those need different food, different timing and different budget lines, and we quote them as two things rather than one.
The rest is the building. A convention hall is a controlled environment with its own delivery windows, receiving process, dock and marshalling arrangements, and its own rules about what an outside caterer may bring in — and those rules belong to the venue, not to us. We plan the load-in around them and confirm them for your specific hall and dates before the show rather than arriving to find out, and we schedule around the aisle rather than the clock so delivery does not happen in your busiest half-hour. Staff meals come individually boxed and labeled so they keep in a back-of-booth cooler and can be eaten in the gaps rather than in one break that never comes. Everything is halal · zabiha-sourced with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free alongside, priced per guest, for a single day or a full multi-day show on one invoice.
Why Carthage
Why Carthage for trade shows
What you get with us for trade shows specifically — not a generic catering pitch.
Booth traffic and staff meals quoted separately
Food that stops the aisle and food that keeps your team standing are different jobs with different timing and budget. We price them as two things.
Handed over in five seconds, no litter
Visible from the aisle, no plate or cutlery, nothing that leaves waste you have to manage in a carpeted hall.
Load-in planned around the hall's rules
Delivery windows, receiving, dock and marshalling confirmed for your specific hall and dates before the show. Those rules are the venue's — we work to them.
Boxed meals that survive the gaps
Individually boxed and labeled so they keep in a back-of-booth cooler and get eaten in the gaps rather than in a break that never comes.
Need a station that pulls a crowd to your booth? See our live station catering
Questions
Before you ask
Can you deliver into a convention centre?
What food actually stops traffic at a booth?
Our booth staff never get a lunch break. What do you suggest?
Can a multi-day show be one invoice?
Dietary
Dietary needs?
Every trade shows menu is labeled per dish and built around the guest list — here's how we handle the requests we hear most.
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